Radclyffe Hall quotes:

For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good.

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation. ~ The Well of Loneliness, 1928

Stephen, why are you shivering?''I don't know, my darling.''Mary, why are you crying?''I don't know, Stephen.'p424"

There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.

Do you believe in God, Martin?'And he answered, 'Yes, because of His trees. Don't you?''I'm not sure...''Oh, my poor, blind Stephen! Look again, go on looking until you do believe.

Life's not all beer and skittles

in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

And hearing him, Stephen found herself thinking that all men had something simple about them; something that took pleasure in the things that were blameless, that longed, as it were, to contact Nature.

The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth -- but the intuition of those who stand mi-way between the sexes is so ruthless, so poignant, so deadly, as to be in the nature of an added scourge...

The grey of a bitter, starved-looking morning. The town like a mortally wounded creature, torn by shells, gashed open by bombs. Dead streets - streets of death - death in streets and their houses; yet people still able to sleep and still sleeping.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.